Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is where the bladder which controls the fish 's position in the water inflates and then can not deflate . |
| 2 | One third of the failures are caused by the development of an afunctional gall bladder which precludes the dissolution of the remaining small fragments . |
| 3 | In the same year the Church of England led the way out of a moral impasse which trapped the Catholic Church by giving birth control its blessing under the name of Family Planning . |
| 4 | If anyone were to ask me who , above all , was responsible for the moral collapse which characterised the 1960s and 1970s , I would unhesitatingly name Sir Hugh Carleton-Greene … . |
| 5 | His reluctance to tell the fall story is all of a piece with his extreme slowness , after his religious conversion , to accept Christianity , a religion which tries the heart , which searches us out and knows us . |
| 6 | The proposed fencing would impinge on a public bridleway which traverses the field . |
| 7 | After descending , bear left onto the grassy bridleway which joins the road . |
| 8 | His next film is a ‘ character mystery ’ — not a musical — about Weegee , the famous news photographer of the Depression years , named for his ability to arrive at the scene of a crime with a speed which suggested the use of an ouija board . |
| 9 | THE furnace which powered the last bastion of North Wales 's once-mighty steel industry was last night on its way to China . |
| 10 | The move was supported last night by the Automobile Association which said the system already worked well in England and Wales . |
| 11 | Calls for BOLA , the bookmakers ' association which represents the majority of High Street betting shops , to reveal the coups that failed have fallen on deaf ears . |
| 12 | Now a day 's residue is some association which relates the manifest content usually to what happened to you that day , and often i they 're very oft it 's often that the day 's residue is built into the manifest dream , so it 's quite obvious , you had this dream because of something that happened to you on that day . |
| 13 | Some statisticians dislike this property : they prefer symmetric measures of association which take the same value whichever way round the causal effect is presumed to run . |
| 14 | Alteration of the ‘ objects ’ clause in the Memorandum of Association which determines the business activities of the company . |
| 15 | Bill Waddell , chairman of The Avenues Tenants Association which covers the area , said : ‘ We are terrified a child is going to be killed . ’ |
| 16 | Furthermore the Housing Association which provided the main source of funds to local Housing Associations is now in financial difficulty itself . |
| 17 | Secondly , professionalism involves an association which controls the conduct of its members ‘ in respects which are defined as relevant to the collective interests of the profession ’ . |
| 18 | The Conservatives focused their attention more on the needs of agriculture and the church than urban landlords , but there was a strand in Party thinking which accepted the principle of State aid for housing . |
| 19 | These explanations are crucial for parents and teachers who are trying to understand the thinking which underlies the attainment targets and programmes of study ; a main reason why I have written this book is to give our rationale a wider audience . |
| 20 | Although opportunities are so obviously different from problems there is a style of management thinking which equates the two by broadening the definition of a " problem " to include anything you might want to achieve . |
| 21 | It is , I think , the logical conclusion of the line in Enlightenment thought which has run from Rousseau through Nietzsche and Sartre — the strand of truly anarchic individualist thinking which avoids the vulgar Nozickian ‘ libertarian ’ path of concentrating on the freedom of certain selected institutions such as commercial companies , and genuinely exalts only the freedom of the individual . |
| 22 | However , the possibilities and limits of improvement were determined by a number of factors : existing classroom expertise , individual school and classroom circumstances , professional attitudes and commitments ; and , framing all of these , the quality of the thinking which informed the appraisal of existing practice and the exploration of alternatives . |
| 23 | Amongst a broad section of opinion , not only vote-seeking politicians , the idea of ‘ reconstruction ’ with its blueprints for the future tapped currents of social thinking which antedated the war , but now sustained by the example of the role of the State in managing the war effort . |
| 24 | Among the various intelligent activities of the rational man is the analytic thinking which criticizes the rest , which exposes clumsiness in driving , a weak line in a verse , ineptitude in an intuitive estimate of character . |
| 25 | From Bueu we reversed our tracks to Vigo , before cycling thirty kilometres to Tui on the river Miňo which forms the border with Portugal . |
| 26 | Little acts of kindness which required the body 's co-operation , such as helping with the washing-up after a good meal , demanded a prodigious amount of persuasion ; while a really big thing , like finishing Student Cross , just met with stubborn resistance . |
| 27 | Splendid decor and costuming and an editing rhythm which matches the verse tempi , all contribute to this magical extravaganza . ’ |
| 28 | A ballet fur the stage must have an overall rhythm which sets the atmosphere , quality , mood and possibly the emotional content of the whole . |
| 29 | An example may be found in Mozart 's third sentence from the Andante just quoted : This looks quite different from the previous section ( Example 26 ) , yet it is really made up of semiquaver groups which end the second sentence , with the addition of the dotted rhythm which begins the second full bar of the music . |
| 30 | The horse must give to the rider 's hand , of course , but it is the bringing of the hocks under the horse which allow the horse to lower his head . |